Evil Forces
#770022
A red that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#770022
RGB
119, 0, 34
OKLCh
36.1% 0.145 16.0°
CIELAB (D50)
24.3, 46.7, 18.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.5; on black, Lc -8.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 27.3 and 34.8 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.81:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#770022
protanopia
#272723 · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#42421c · ΔE00 34.8
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWine Red at ΔE00 0.976: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wine RedΔE00 0.976 · #7b0323
- Heavy HeartΔE00 2.042 · #771122
- OxbloodΔE00 2.677 · #800020
- Jazzy RedΔE00 3.011 · #771c2b
- BordeauxΔE00 3.246 · #7b002c
- ClaretΔE00 3.433 · #680018
- Forbidden PassionΔE00 3.562 · #661020
- Sweet Cherry RedΔE00 3.609 · #84172c
- Dark HumourΔE00 3.72 · #661122
- Red BerryΔE00 3.761 · #701f28
- Antique RubyΔE00 3.996 · #841b2d
- Surya RedΔE00 4.037 · #70191f
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.